Asia Pacific air safety record improves
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Asian air safety continued to improve in 2015, with the accident rates for both jet and turboprop aircraft declining last year.
According to data released by IATA this week, airlines in the Asia Pacific region registered a loss rate of just 0.21 jet aircraft for every one million flights in 2015, down from 0.56 in 2014. This is also better than the global average of 0.32 jet aircraft losses.
The region also lost 2.07 turboprop aircraft per one million flights. This is down from 2.36 in the previous year, but still higher than the global average of 1.29 turboprop hull losses.
In the turboprop sector, North Asia had the world’s worst performance (25.19 hull losses in 2015, compared to 5.90 in 2014), reflecting two regional incidents, one of which was fatal.
But due to the relatively small number of turboprop operations in North Asia – approximately 80,000 flights in 2015 out of a world total of 6.2 million – IATA said that any accident “magnifies” the statistics.
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